The wife of President Aisha Buhari has appealed to media practitioners to join the campaign to eliminate tuberculosis in Nigeria. Aisha said this on Sunday when she hosted some key stakeholders to dinner to celebrate TB champions and survivors in Nigeria. The event was organised by the wife of the President as TB Ambassador in […]
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PSN commits to ending TB epidemic by 2030
The Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria (PSN) has pledged to ensure Nigerians with tuberculosis (TB) are provided proper pharmaceutical care with simplified medication for compliance and total cure of the epidemic before 2030. The pharmaceutical body said it is committed to achieving a TB free world through one of its technical group, the Association of Community […]
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Buhari commits Nigeria to TB eradication
PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari has restated Nigeria’s commitment towards the eradication of tuberculosis in the near future. Addressing a High Level meeting on the theme, “United Against Tuberculosis: Global Action Against Global Threat” on the sidelines […]
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TB kills over 1.6m people annually – UN
UCH treated 300 patients with drug-resistant TB in 8 years
IN the last eight years, the University College Hospital said it had treated about 300 patients with the drug-resistant Tuberculosis, the deadly form of the disease with a rampaging and disastrous effect. Chief Medical Director, […]
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Fire razes multi-billion Naira tuberculosis reference laboratory
An inferno on Monday razed down a multi-million Naira reference laboratory centre at the National Tuberculosis and Leprosy Training Centre in Zaria, Kaduna State. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the burnt reference centre is one of the best in Africa, fully equipped with functional facilities for the test of HIV, leprosy and malaria, […] …